WooCommerce Reviews

Pros

The basic Woocommerce platform delivers all the features needed to run a successful e-commerce shop for most industries or niche services.
The thousands of specialist plugins that expand on this basic platform make it suitable for any specialisation you can think of.
On top of it all, the platform is free and most plugins have a free tier that is sufficient for most situations.
All you need to add is hosting, a domain, some WordPress knowledge and time and you can build a powerful ecommmerce store withouot the high monthly rates of competing platforms.

Cons

You need to invest some time in learning the basics of the platform if you want to build you own store. Alternatively, you can engage a WordPress developer at reasonable rates to build your site.

Pros

Love how easy it is to set up and how many different plugins you can get to customise it exactly how you need it.

Cons

There is a bit of a learning curve but there are also plenty of how to walkthroughs online to make using it easier.

Alternatives Considered

Shopify

Reasons for Choosing WooCommerce

The pricing for Squarespace kept going up while the features stayed largely the same. I made the decision to switch to wordpress for my site and so installing WooCommerce was a no brainer. The functionality and customisation options are fantastic, especially for the price when most of the things you need to get started are free.

Switched From

Squarespace

Reasons for Switching to WooCommerce

I decided not to go with Shopify because, while it was easier to set up and use straight away, there was a monthly fee to pay from the beginning and I wasn't sure how much I'd use it. I also needed to move my main website and wordpress with WooCommerce allowed me the flexibility to set up my site and have different plugins depending on what I needed from my site. I also wasn't sure how popular my online store would be and not having to pay a monthly fee with WooCommerce was a more attractive option.

Pros

It works with Wordpress. But requires additional plugins to allow functionality that one would think was built in already

Cons

Because it’s a server side software solution, it can be a dog to use.

Pros

The best option for e-commerce using Wordpress

Cons

Wordpress as an e-commerce platform is not the most robust choice.

Alternatives Considered

Shopify

Reasons for Switching to WooCommerce

Pricing and being open source means I have more control over customization.

Pros

I love how seemless it is to use WooCommerce with WordPress. It’s easier to use it to collect payment and easy to use.

Cons

The only cons I have is that you need to buy some more tools if you need to use some advance features but most of those features are just addons.

Alternatives Considered

Shopify

Reasons for Switching to WooCommerce

I choose Woocommerce because of flexibility and price

Pros

Is the 2nd fastest tool to create an ecommerce in less than 1 hour.
You are in control of your checkout process and your money, and you are not forced to pay fees on every sell

Cons

You need to pay a lot of plugins or have your coders in order to optimise everything. There is a lot of things you cannot do without coding

Alternatives Considered

Shopify

Reasons for Switching to WooCommerce

You are in control of your money and payment process.

Pros

Easy of setup, free to use, lot of plugins

Cons

A lot of addons is not secure. Don't have a EAN field.

Alternatives Considered

PrestaShop and Shopify

Reasons for Switching to WooCommerce

IT is much cheaper. I preffer IT when customers want a cheaper version of the store

Pros

I simple, clean interface and a variety of display options for my shop.

Cons

You can't link to calendars in the same way you can a booking system.

Alternatives Considered

Mindbody, Eventbrite and Bookwhen

Reasons for Switching to WooCommerce

It was included in my WordPress package so I didn't have to pay anything extra for it. The fees were also low.

Pros

Very easy setup and management, very customiseable and has a lot of integration features and plugins. we love the full control of the data

Cons

the only con i can think of was the support available

Pros

The best thing we liked about its sleek design and custom functions

Cons

Nothing, we liked everything about Woocommerce

Pros

The built in inventory management and easy of use for those familiar with wordpress is brilliant. The fact that you can upgrade and existing business site to add the functionality later on is brilliant.

Cons

Shipping in our country (NZ) costs a lot to get set up properly with plugins. If you are happy setting up shipping classes and then sometimes loosing out when people buy more than what you can ship for their size box, then its fine.

Alternatives Considered

Wix, BigCommerce and Shopify

Reasons for Switching to WooCommerce

As we already had an exsisting WordPress website it made the transition way easier.

Pros

It's very intuitive and user friendly and gives a detailed presentation of our products and is very easy to integrate with 3rd party services.

Cons

The mobile app for store management is a bit laggy and creating and integrating a mobile app is a bit confusing.

Pros

Woocommerce allows even the smallest of shops to push their products across the internet.

Cons

It can rarely be used "out of the box". It takes a lot to set up and isn't for unknowledgeable users. But then, I'm happy to set it up for our clients which means all they need to do is edit their inventory or add new products.

Pros

It's a great entry point platform, given its open source and free to start using.

Cons

The user interface can be improved and made easier to use. Given the free nature of the app, it's also likely to attract small solo business users who may not be tech savvy, so it could do with more work on the UI front.

Secondly, for an ecommerce tool, it should really have better inventory management features built in.

Alternatives Considered

Shopify

Pros

The diversity of what you can build out using all the extensions, plugins, etc. Everything integrates with WooCommerce as well so it has been easy to integrate things like widgets from our review platform, signup forms for our membership, etc.

Cons

Sometimes, depending on what you are wanting to do, it can take a miriad of plugins to get the job done.

Pros

I mainly liked the ease of use and integration of WooCommerce. Being able to create my products quickly and easily, adding images and details such as colors, sizes, etc. was an important advantage when managing my online store. The customization it allows on the front-end also allowed me to adapt it to the design and style I wanted for my brand. Another functionality that I valued was natively secure payments through gateways such as PayPal, which streamlined the purchasing process for my clients

Cons

What I liked least was the limited customization in the back-end and administration panels. Although you can modify the fields of the order forms, it is not easy to customize the structure and design of the administration area much further. This could be improved to give more advanced configuration options to those who require it. Another point to improve are some processes that are not very intuitive, such as inventory management requiring more steps than necessary

Pros

What I liked most about WooCommerce was its great flexibility and customization capacity. Thanks to its architecture based on plugins, themes and extensions, I was able to configure exactly the online store I needed for my business. I had the opportunity to test various payment methods, shipping logistics, theme designs, among other optimizations. In addition, its native integration with WordPress allowed me to take full advantage of the CMS's functionalities to create content and manage my store in a very intuitive way

Cons

What I liked least about WooCommerce was that since it is an open source platform, the learning curve is somewhat longer than other e-commerce solutions. It required spending extra time at the beginning to familiarize myself with all of its configuration parameters, database tables, and templating system. I also missed a larger library of natively available themes, although I realized that this is offset by the flexibility to create custom layouts

Pros

Easy to use with many inbuilt features to give you most standard things to design a shop.

Cons

First time learning curve is high, but once you done it once is much easier.

Pros

It saves us a lot of time with our inventory management as it gives you low stock alerts in real time. It also enables our customers to track their entire order with the integrations.

Cons

I can honestly say I don't think there is anything I do not like about it.

Pros

I am fond of WooCommerce to be honest. For the past 8 months, we have reached figures we would never have made without WooCommerce. Managing order right from our mobile devices, changing order statuses from on-hold to completed, after matching with the financial records was so fast and easy. The ability to add custom notes be it for the customer (who receives a note) or privately (for our team) was game changing in terms of customer management. It is like having both a product management system and a CRM within the same dashboard.

Cons

Many of the useful features are paid add-ons, for instance the shipping status updates.

Pros

- Basic functionality is free
- Enough for most ecommerce needs
- Easy to set up
- Quite good documentation

Cons

- For more advanced functions you need a lot of paid plugins
- Seems a litle bit bloated

Pros

If you have a WordPress site and wish to conduct eCommerce sales, WooCommerce offers an excellent and expandable platform. I have found it to have the flexibility to match my clients' various needs.

Cons

Some of the plugins have conflicts which can break certain website features.

Pros

I love the numerous extensions available to take your cart to the next level and integrate with any shipping platform and payment account.

Cons

We had an issue and customer support was delayed and not very helpful.

Pros

Its ease of use is the most important factor. It also makes SEO easy to optimize products.

Cons

It can be only used with wordpress and it is the feature i would love to use in other platforms too.

Pros

ITS VERY GOOD CHOICE FOR NO SKILLS START UP.

Cons

very hard to learn and under stand the website functions.